Author: Will Singleton
Date: 23:16:09 10/26/99
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On October 26, 1999 at 22:55:21, Tim Mann wrote: >On October 26, 1999 at 19:36:49, blass uri wrote: > >>I also do nor understand the no playing more than 4 games in a row against >>computers. > >Crafty is popular, so I think Bob wants to allow no one to play it more than 4 >times in a row. That way everyone has a chance, not just the current player who >keeps doing "rematch" and getting in before anyone else. > >The next release of Zippy will have an optional limit on the number of games >that one person can play in a row. If you hit the limit, Zippy will decline >your challenges until either someone else has played or 5 minutes have elapsed. >I think this will deal with the issue of one player trying to monopolize a >popular computer. > I do this now in my interface, and it seems to work all right. But the "decline" lasts until it disconnects. Perhaps you could also have a user-settable variable for minutes for decline-mode to last. Will
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